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Anonymous ID: a71389 May 20, 2018, 11:58 a.m. No.1483069   🗄️.is 🔗kun

>>1482391

>I believe this yet I get such a conflict.

>TPTB and Religion tell us we have free will, but it's [only] on their terms.

 

I think I understand where you are coming from here, but from my perspective, TPTB are working very hard in multiple spheres of influence to undermine the belief in Free Will among the masses. This campaign of TPTB is not at all a secret and began with the start of the industrial revolution and with the introduction of the Prussian system of organized "schooling." But today, their efforts are much more covert.

 

Just the other day, Joe Rogan released a video clip with Steven Tyler, where Joe parrots Sam Harris's "Free Will is an Illusion" argument without a challenge. I generally like and respect both Joe and Sam, but hope that if they ever really understand how dangerous their promotion of disbelief in Free Will is to society, they will stop at once promoting this obvious agenda of their puppet masters.

 

Regardless of whether or not we can ever actually prove that “free will” exists, the more important scientific question, which has already been sufficiently addressed, is how does the belief in “free will” serve humanity in our daily lives today.

 

What Joe and Sam fail to acknowledge is the strong empirical evidence proving that efforts to induce disbelief in “free will” increases cheating (1), aggression (2), racial prejudice (3) and conformity (4), while decreasing helping behavior (2), self-control (5,6), gratitude (7) and sound judgment (8).

 

When viewed from this perspective, it raises profound questions regarding the true intentions of those who want to convince us all that “free will” is an illusion.

 

References

  1. Vohs, K. D., & Schooler, J. W. (2008). The value of believing in free will: Encouraging a belief in determinism increases cheating. Psychological Science, 19, 49–54.

  2. Baumeister, R. F., Masicampo, E. J., & DeWall, C. N. (2009). Prosocial benefits of feeling free: Disbelief in free will increases aggression and reduces helpfulness. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 35, 260–268.

  3. Zhao X, Liu L, Zhang X-x, Shi J-x, Huang Z-w (2014) The Effect of Belief in Free Will on Prejudice. PLoS ONE 9(3): e91572.

  4. Alquist, J. L., Ainsworth, S. E., & Baumeister, R. F. (2013). Determined to conform: Disbelief in free will increases conformity. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 49, 80–86.

  5. Rigoni, D., Kuhn, S., Gaudino, G., Sartori, G., & Brass, M. (2012). Reducing self-control by weakening belief in free will. Consciousness and Condition, 21, 1482–1490.

  6. Rigoni, D., Kuhn, S., Sartori, G., & Brass, M. (2011). Inducing disbelief in free will alters brain correlates of preconscious motor preparation: The brain minds whether we believe in free will or not. Psychological Science, 22(5), 613–618.

  7. MacKenzie, M.J., K.D. Vohs, and R.F. Baumeister, (2014) You Didn't Have to Do That: Belief in Free Will Promotes Gratitude. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 40(11): p. 1423-1434.

  8. Rigoni, D., Wilquin, H., Brass, M., & Burle, B. (2013). When errors do not matter: Weakening belief in intentional control impairs cognitive reaction to errors. Cognition, 127, 264–269.

 

>To truly be free, you have to dig deep.

 

I agree!